Facing a $1.6-million deficit, the Susquenita school board approved significant cuts Monday that affect everything from jobs and transportation to extra-curricular offerings.

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Each sport team’s head coach will be asked to cut staff positions, including three paid positions for both boys and girls basketball, one position in football, and one position each for boys and girls soccer.

While the board initially planned to eliminate evening football games, members decided that because revenue for games exceeds the expense of operating field lights, night games will continue. Nighttime boys and girls soccer games will be cut, however.

The board also eliminated transportation for the band to attend away football games as well as the summer activity bus program and limit all nonleague games to within a 78-mile radius of the district.

The elementary school will lose an office clerk and positions in alternative kindergarten, kindergarten, second, third and fourth grades, and reduce a guidance counselor and a library aide to half-time.

The middle school will lose a secretary, library aide, a teaching position, and a counselor and a librarian will be reduced to half-time. The remaining librarian will split time between the middle and high school.

At the high school, an assistant principal position will be cut, as will a business position and a special education position, and possibly one French position will be reduced to half-time.

The district will also eliminate two maintenance positions.

After-school organizations will not continue because staff members are paid to advise the clubs. Other cuts include the science fair coordinator and play director.

Initially, summer school at the high school was to be cut, but with strong support from the student body, it was retained.

The school board will hold a final budget workshop at 7 p.m. Monday at the high school. The final budget vote is June 13.

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